Video tutorial: Alice Pop-Up Box and new stencils

Welcome back everyone! Today, new week, new video and some new stencils! What can you make out of corrugated cardboard and book pages? A pop-up box! I love this project, I hope you enjoy the video and give it a go!

These are the new stencils I used in this video, more details about them over the next days, available in my Etsy shop:

Motivational Artist Trading Block with Visible Image

Hello everyone, today I show you how to create a nice gift for a friend, a colourful motivational block, very easy to make:

You can start with a bunch of gel prints and cover a wooden block or you can create your own Artist Trading Block out of grey cardstock

You can even put a small gift inside

STEP BY STEP:

Gel print 6 cardstock square cut to size

Stencil them with Distress Oxide

Stamp every square with a quote from Visible Image Look Forward With Hope  sentiment stamp set

Glue down every cardstock to the Artist Trading Block sides (this is a Eileen Hull die)

GelPrinted Artist Trading Block with a Minialbum

A big question: what to do when you cannot stop gel printing and you collect just tons of gel prints? This time I decided to make an Artist Trading Block, so popular just a couple of years ago (here, here, here here, here my ATBs from the past). And since this ATB was big enough to hold something inside and I had still gel prints left...Are you curious?;-)
Allora cosa fare quando inizi a gellare e non riesci più a smettere ed hai tutte quelle belle stampe colorate? Ardua domanda! Questa volta ho deciso di farci una Artist Trading Block, così popolari solo qualche anno fa (le mie ATB durante gli anni qui, qui, qui qui, qui). E visto che era bella grande, perchè non metterci dentro qualcosa fatto sempre con le carte gellate? Curiose? ;-)

And inside..

The pages inside the minialbum

Here the video how to make this gel prints with '10 Hand-Made texture plates for your GelliArts® prints'

E qui il video su come creare tutte le stampe per l'ATB: '10 Hand-made texture plates for your GelliArts® prints'

With this I participate on MiniAlbumMakers challenge blog.

ArtistTradingBlock: Spring is in the air for Indigoblu

And Spring is in full rage right now, best season of the year, for sure! And it is also the new theme on the IndigoBlu blog 'Spring is in the air'. I created an ATB with a lovely stamp set and bright colours. I started with a A4 size cardstock sprayed with acrylic paints and cut to size:
Siamo ormai in piena primavera, decisamente il periodo più bello dell'anno. Ed è anche il nuovo tema sul blog della Indigo Blu 'Primavera nell'aria'. Io ho creato una ATB tagliando il template da un foglio di cartoncino A4 precedentemente spruzzato dei miei colori preferiti.

With the leftovers I made two bookmarks, super easy!

Con gli avanzi ho pure creato due semplicissimi segnalibro.

I used 

As every month there's a fabulous prize to win:
1: 2 Large stamp plates or
2: 4 Small stamp plates or
3: 1 Large and 2 small plates
There’s also the Winner’s Badge, and one for the Top 3, to display proudly on your blog, and the WINNER of the challenge will also be invited to do a GUEST SPOT on a future Challenge Launch post.

TIMI: ATB in Paris

This month at the CraftStamper TIMI challenge blog for the 'Take a technique' the theme is 'Ink Stitch Paint Collage Print Paper' (and stamping, of course)  like the strapline on the new look on the Craft Stamper cover. We had fun with the new ATB kits from Calico Craft, that it is also the sponsor of this month prize. I love ATB and I loved this kit, I covered every side of the cubes with patterned papers and then I stamped over them.

Questo mese per TIMI il tema è 'Ink Stitch Paint Collage Print Paper' e timbri naturalmente! Diciamo un tema piuttosto libero, e noi del team abbiamo avuto modo di usare gli ATB in kit della Calico Craft, sponsor del premio di questo mese. I miei due cubi li ho ricoperti con patterned paper e poi timbrati, mi piace molto l'effetto vintage!

ATB, Upcycled cornflakes box and Crackle

The new 'Take a Technique' theme at TIMI is Texture: I made an Artist Trading Block out of a cereal box ( I don't have any cutting machine here for the proper Sizzix die).
In one of the two parcels sent me from Italy there was the Distress Crackle Clear Rock Candy. I never used this stuff, because everytime I got a poor result, but this time, since the limited supplies on hands, I didn't give up until I got the gorgeous texture I always see on the web.
Questo mese il tema del challenge di CraftStamper magazine è Texture: io ho creato una ATB da una scatola di cereali e usato finalmente con successo (dopo diversi anni di giacenza) il Distress Crackle Clear Rock Candy.

The colours came from a lucky experiment: I gessoed the cardstock and then I sprayed some Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays.
Lo sfondo è successo per caso, dopo aver gessato e spruzzato i colori, mi sono accorta che il gesso se li era semplicemente succhiati, o forse quel tipo di cartoncino non so.

When dry I got a grey-sh, blu-ish pink-ish sad stuff...the gesso or the cardstock, sucks all the colours, I just wanted to throw away everything.
Stavo per abbandonare l'opera quando ho visto sulla scrivania il barattolo del crackle'.

When I saw the rocky cracle candy on my desk (since I was using it on an AJ page)...I tried to scrap a thick layer on the cardstock and the day after the colours were back!! 
Ne ho spennellato una bella quantità e la mattina i colori erano ritornati alla superficie, non so per quale reazione chimica! Mai arrendersi!

I don't know which chemical reation happened but I was so happy!

And the texture, lovely!

And this is the AJ page where I used also the crakle:

 The background has been made by cleaning my stencils and then scraping a thick layer of crackle.The image was so beautiful I decided that the page didn't need anything else. Sometimes less is more.
Lo sfondo era una pagina dove ho pulito gli stencils da un altro progetto, e sopra un bello strato di crackle'.

With this page I participate on the challenge  on ArtJournal Journey: Masculine /Feminine